Climate

Climate

Thinning ice leads to winter warming in the Arctic

Thinning Arctic sea ice could boost heat-trapping water vapor in the air during autumn and winter, leading to more ice loss.

Animals

Getting creative to cut methane from cows

Changing feed, giving vaccines and selective breeding may enable scientists to help beef and dairy cattle shake their title as one of society's worst methane producers.

Climate

Geoengineering is world’s last hope, new book argues

Geoengineering is humankind’s only viable solution to curb climate change impacts, a journalist contends in The Planet Remade.

Climate

Kangaroo farts may not be so eco-friendly after all

Kangaroos fart methane, but not much thanks to the metabolism of gut microbes

Climate

Eocene temperature spike caused by half as much CO₂ as once thought

Revised experiments demonstrate that hot temperatures during the Eocene resulted from lower carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought.

Climate

How to melt an ice cave

Frigid winter air keeps gives ice caves their perpetual chill, researchers find, warning that airtight seals on some ice caves could cause the frigid formations to melt within decades.

Oceans

Rising temperatures complicate efforts to manage cod fishery

Higher water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine could play a role in Atlantic cod crashes.

Earth

Parched parts of Earth expanding

More drylands, largely impacting developing nations, are forecasted for near future.

Climate

Wi-Fi threatens weather forecasts

Interference from wireless technology threatens the usefulness of weather radar, meteorologists warn.

Climate

Hurricane Patricia’s howling winds smash records

Hurricane Patricia’s winds are now the fastest ever recorded in a tropical cyclone, making it the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere.

Climate

Climate change could shift New England’s fall foliage

Climate change could make for earlier or later fall color, depending on where you live in New England.

Paleontology

New evidence weakens case against climate in woolly mammoths’ death

Hunters responsible for woolly mammoths’ extinction, suggests a chemical analysis of juveniles’ tusks.